YOU CAN cook tasty food: Be amazing with this inspiring guide (Collins YOU CAN)

This is such a wonderful book to help get the kids cooking! My 6 year old and I have made the fish fingers and fishcakes and both have been delicious, quick and easy to make. We're going to try a recipe a week from the book as she's enjoying making them so much.

A wonderful, easy to follow cook book that’s jam packed with delicious recipes. Simple step-by-step guides make it straightforward for my 9yo to follow, teaching him a variety of skills and an introduction to nutrition. He loved the chicken nuggets, banana lollies and fruit leathers!

This is a colourful and well presented book packed full of recipes. The recipes are easy to read and easy to follow - well within the ability of my 9 year old daughter to complete them with minimal adult interference. In terms of encouraging independence and growing confidence to complete tasks unaided this is a fantastic resource.But Beware! Not all the recipes are what they seem. We have tried a few and they are a bit hit and mis. \there is a rather hardcore approach to what this book calls real food vs processed food - so no sugar/white flour, minimal butter and dairy. One recipe, simply titled 'Fudge' consists of cashew nuts a dod of honey and a little butter, it bears no actual resemblance to fudge at all, other than having a fudgy texture. I should state for the record that I don't like honey, that probably went some way towards ruining my enjoyment of this recipe, but really the taste was not good. The lemonade was undrinkable - squeezed lemons, water and a dod of honey, it was super sour. I guess the authors of this book might argue that I am conditioned but a life time of sugar consumption to reject anything unsweetened - this may be true, but I don't believe that the way to stop kids eating so much processed food is by removing all sugar from their diet. The 'savoury' recipes were much more successful, lamb kofta, veggie packed burgers and fish cakes were fun to make and tasty to eat.

This is a great little book from Collins's "You Can" series which is designed to help children between 7-11 years old take a more hands on view of life and realise that there are plenty of things they can do to create and learn.Written by Nutritionist Helen Burgess all of the tasty treats featured in the recipes in this book are healthy and nutritious and the book is more than just a Cook Book,encouraging children to think about the food they eat and make healthier choices.The book is bright and attractive with nice clear pictures to tempt and encourage the budding Junior Chef to try their hand the simple recipes. In this age group there would be adult suoervsion and guidance involved as well and what better way to spend quality time with your child/children than creating something tasty?£6.38 for this is a steal for such an entertaining,creative and educational book.

We are vegetarian and found that the majority, 34 out of the 38 of the recipes where suitable for our dietary needs and a lot of them are also suitable for vegans as the recipes will say use an alternative milk for milk or coconut oil for butter.I got this for my 5 year old, who has shown an interest in cooking. The recipes vary in complexity. Some he can do with little instruction, like Banana lollies and Delicious dates. Others require some help, especially if the cooker is required.The pages are vibrant and apart from the recipes, the pages have tips, fun facts, questions and games that will help keep children entertained. YOU CAN cook tasty food is a great introduction to cookery for kids.

...there are areas of 'white space', often encouraging further research into various items, such as cashew nuts or how many types of fish, even a bit of drawing & colouring in, e.g. the fruit & veg you would like to grow or your own picture of tasty food.‘DID YOU KNOW❓’ snippets are also included, with ‘TIPS’ also interspersed, along with other things to do, such as making a bird feeder (POPCORN recipe on pages 40 & 41).And...waiting for ‘BANANA LOLLIES’ to freeze, you could pass the time with the ‘FOOD ALPHABET GAME’, on pages 32 & 33, or do the quiz on SWEETCORN, on page 85 (answers upside down)!The ‘LOOK INSIDE’ facility + current stock images above give an idea of the content to see whether it is the style for you & yours.From the back cover:🍅 ‘GET CHOPPING, GET MIXING AND GET COOKINGThe how-to book for kids who love to cook and bake.It’s easy to understand and tells you exactly what you need to know step-by-step.~ Easy-peasy tips on how to make tasty and nutritious food~ Space to scribble and make the book your own~ Packed with fun things to do’ooOooMeasuring around 14.75 cm x 21 cm, this is one of the titles in a new series from COLLINS.The card cover opens to 96 numbered, colourful, matte finish pages as per the CONTENTS at the front which is split into 4 main RECIPE SECTIONS, namely:~ BREAKFASTS (pg 18-31)~ SNACKS AND BAKES (pg 32-59)~ MAIN MEALS (pg 60-85)~ YUMMY EXTRAS (pg 86-93)...sandwiched between a general introduction that includes 'EAT REAL FOOD', ‘EAT A RAINBOW’, notes on ‘KNOWING WHERE YOUR FOOD COMES FROM’, some TOOLS to have to hand in the kitchen, OVEN TEMPERATURES & TECHNIQUES.The last page is almost back to where we started with a request to record your favourite foods under the relevant colours of the rainbow (image below refers).Each recipe is over a double page spread and is clear with the title, a table with ALLERGENS, SERVINGS, PREP & COOK TIMES & the TOOLS required.The list of INGREDIENTS & STEP-BY-STEP METHOD is up next, most followed by an extension exercise, examples previously mentioned.Other recipes include:~ OVERNIGHT OATS~ EGG MUFFINS~ PORRIDGE~ HOMEMADE CHOCOLATE~ CHOCOLATE MOUSSE (with avocado!)~ BANANA BREAD~ LEMON BISCUITS~ FISH FINGERS~ VEGGIE NACHOS~ BAKED BEANS~ RAINBOW PIZZA~ LAMB MEATBALL WRAPS~ QUICHE~ CHICKEN NUGGETS~ VEGGIE MUFFINS~ DIPS~ CHIPS AND KETCHUP~ SMOOTHIES[20 images attached © Helen Burgess, Little Cooks Co, Gráinne Freeman, Shutterstock & HarperCollins/2021]